Of course, $200,000 isn't enough to fund a project of this scope. Pierson said SETI is in negotiations with the Air Force to continue to collect information on orbital debris. By charging for that service, SETI may be able to earn enough money to keep listening for signs of life.

So how does that work?

I thought the ATA was a passive receiving array.

Aside: Has any science been published from ATA results? Go for scientific funding?

They got their money alright, sounds like Hadden Industries stepped in to save the day.

Id like to propose an alternate hypothesis if i may! And I'd like you to bring your considerable scientific expertise to bear on it.

To am......fake a signal from Vega, what would you need? ........"You would need a satellite to transmit the signal....But it would be impossible to simulate something......."

You would need a satellite, and you would need launch capabilities to put the satellite into orbit, and of coarse, the message itself. To put something like this together, so complex, drawing on so many different disiplins.......Would be impossible. Impossible!! Impossible!!

Is there anyone that might have been up to the challenge? Someone with extraordinary technical expertise, enormous financial resources, someone perverse enough, eccentric enough to have come up with the idea in the first place?

"Hadden??????"

S.R. Hadden!!!

"Your implying that this was all some kind of a hoax?.....That he engineered this...."

S.R. Hadden,.... a legendary power broker and manipulator in perhaps his final bid for immortality. Maybe he wanted to explore and exploit experimental technologies and get the governments of the world to pick up the tab. Perhaps this was his final altruistic gesture, to unite the world in one common goal, maybe all of the above. S.R. Hadden, a brilliant and complicated man!